Example sentences of "[noun prp] came " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crystal Palace came closest , particularly during the FA Cup run of 1976 when they emulated Norwich , Port Vale and York in reaching the semi-finals as a Third Division side . |
| 2 | Callum came in just then , whistling to the music , apparently oblivious to the air of angry tension , the sparks that emanated dangerously between Luke and Robyn . |
| 3 | When Trestle came to the Festival for the first time in 1986 , they were just beginning to make their name , and were virtually unknown in Belfast . |
| 4 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 5 | St Maximin of Trier was on the other side of Otto I 's kingdom from Magdeburg and the Slavs , but this was the monastery from which Adalbert came . |
| 6 | Biddy came up with Uncle Knacker . |
| 7 | She needed someone to take care of her all the time , and luckily old Mrs Wopsle had just died , so Biddy came to live with us . |
| 8 | They clammed up like leeches when anything about Therese came up . |
| 9 | When Therese came on the entire evening lifted into top gear . |
| 10 | My Aunt Lyallie came to keep my mother company until she recovered a little from the shock , which seemed to have worsened the condition of her eyes , for she was slowly going blind . |
| 11 | Partly as a result , Whitehaven came to prominence in the Virginia tobacco trade during the 1740s , although Lowther had only indirect links with the merchant community . |
| 12 | The emergence of the New Kylie came in the autumn of 1989 . |
| 13 | A man at the back of the crowd said , ‘ I was sitting in the dome car lounge when Xanthe came through , and I can tell you that no one had come the other way . |
| 14 | There is a distinguished series of subscription concerts from autumn to the succeeding summer ( they still talk with pride of the day in 1934 when Richard Strauss came to conduct his Don Quixote and Alpine Symphony ) but there are also free symphony concerts most weeks in the year , very popular particularly with Winterthur 's younger generation . |
| 15 | Early writers called it the battle of Branxton , but Flodden came to be preferred , probably because of balladeers like Sir Walter Scott and Jane Elliott ( The Flowers of the Forest ) . |
| 16 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 17 | The imperial system of government was well established by the time Barbarossa came to the throne , with the established chain of command already described . |
| 18 | Tension between Iraq and Kuwait came to the world 's attention in mid-July when Saddam Hussein launched a fierce attack on the policy of those Gulf states , principally Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , whose over-production of oil he blamed for a corresponding slump in world oil prices . |
| 19 | Austin Farrer came on a visit to Lincoln and reported that Ramsey was a great man in the college and held his audiences spellbound and was less mad . |
| 20 | Anne 's mother told her that she had suggested that Molly came to them while Margaret was busy with nursing , but she and Margaret had decided that the company of the little girl did the old ladies more good than doctor 's medicine . |
| 21 | A series of people waylaid her to chat before she was out of the room , and then Emelda came , rather excitable . |
| 22 | Tell Alistair because erm , he 'll enjoy the joke because , Emelda came down to us you see , she arrived at lunch time , out of the blue to us |
| 23 | 685–6 when the pagan Caedwalla came to power , and the southern Saxons under a Christian king , Aethelwealh , but still otherwise largely a pagan people , appear to have been beyond the range of Theodore 's metropolitan power . |
| 24 | Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef . |
| 25 | Georgina came back with a grey rag , sat down and watched her brother poke his fingers in the cat 's ears . |
| 26 | The door opened , and Georgina came out with the police . |
| 27 | When Bede came to write further of him , he referred only to his subjection of the Picts ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 28 | Cadfael came back to his workshop after supper , to make his final round for the night , damp down his brazier to burn slowly until morning , and make sure all his jars were covered and all his bottles and flasks stoppered securely . |
| 29 | It was almost time for Compline when Cadfael came from the gardens after his last round of the evening , and saw horsemen riding in at the gate . |
| 30 | And when Cadfael came slowly back to her across the empty court , she stood in his way great-eyed , fronting him gravely as if she would penetrate into the most remote recesses of his mind . |